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  • One Of The Great Benefits Of The Worship-Filled ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Mar 25, 2008
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    One of the great benefits of the worship-filled life is you see God working in your home and family life. I have seen God do some amazing things in Kendra’s life and in the life of my kids. Sometimes they are things that could easily be missed. For example, Micaela has the cutest little smile and ...read more

  • Jill Rigby Stated, "Respect For Ourselves Guides ...

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on May 13, 2008
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    Jill Rigby stated, “Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners” (Raising Respectful Children in a Disrespectful World, page 11). Rigby makes this observation about our society today: “When I was growing up, people weren’t perfect, but society was certainly more ...read more

  • Too Busy To Love

    Contributed by Bill Butsko on Jul 21, 2008
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     | 2,999 views

    TOO BUSY TO LOVE A father and his young daughter were great friends and much in each other's company. Then the father noted a change in his daughter. If he went for a walk, she excused herself from going. He grieved about it, but could not understand. When his birthday came, she presented him ...read more

  • Most Of Us Believe That We Know What A Tree ...

    Contributed by Ajai Prakash on Sep 19, 2008
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    Most of us believe that we know what a tree needs in order to grow tall and strong and thus be able to produce enough oxygen to sustain animal and human life. We know to plant it in very rich healthy soil, we know to water it, and we know that it needs sunshine. This experiment was done, not to see ...read more

  • In Our Study Group, It Was Mentioned That If ...

    Contributed by Mark Eberly on Dec 15, 2008
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    In our study group, it was mentioned that if someone broke in and stole all the Christmas gifts not to mention the decorations and Christmas ham, then most of us would have a pretty miserable Christmas. Very few of us would get up and see the empty house and walk outside and start singing the ...read more

  • Be A Line-Guide

    Contributed by Timothy Darling on Jan 26, 2009
     | 1,969 views

    BE A LINE-GUIDE When they were teaching me to march in the Navy, for a while until they learned that I have eye problems (go figure) they made me a line-guide. A line-guide is in the front corner of the ranks and marches straight, so that everyone else can mark their place off him. The line-guide ...read more

  • Hosea 2: Low-Down Person

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Feb 12, 2009
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    HOSEA 2: LOW-DOWN PERSON I was watching an old movie on television and I heard a line that I’d missed before. The villain of this comedy was talking on the phone and said something like: "Sure, I know what kind of low-down person would sue his own mother, but we’re not talking about me!" It caught ...read more

  • As Joni Earickson Tada Puts It… The Message He ...

    Contributed by David Rumley on Apr 16, 2009
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    AS JONI EARICKSON TADA PUTS IT… The message He wanted to get across was that sin kills; Hell is real, but God is merciful, His kingdom can change you, and I am your passport. And anytime people missed that and started to come to Jesus simply to get their situations fixed, the Savior backed away. I ...read more

  • When Michigan Played Wisconsin In Basketball ...

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jul 28, 2009
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    When Michigan played Wisconsin in basketball early in the season in 1989, Michigan’s Rumeal Robinson stepped to the foul line for two shots late in the fourth quarter. His team trailed by one point, so Rumeal could regain the lead for Michigan. He missed both shots, allowing Wisconsin to upset ...read more

  • I'd Rather Have You

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Nov 1, 2009
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    I'D RATHER HAVE YOU A father and his young daughter were great friends and much in each other's company. Then the father noted a change in his daughter. If he went for a walk, she excused herself from going. He grieved about it, but could not understand. When his birthday came, she presented him ...read more

  • Rudyard Kipling's Writings Not Only Made Him ...

    Contributed by Curtis Emerson on Dec 18, 2009
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    Rudyard Kipling’s writings not only made him famous but also brought him a fortune. A newspaper reporter came up to him once and said, "Mr. Kipling, I just read that somebody calculated that the money you make from your writings amounts to over one hundred dollars a word.” He reached into his ...read more

  • Baskin' Through Life

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Dec 13, 2010
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    BASKIN' THROUGH LIFE Two robins were sitting in a tree. One of the robins turned to his buddy and announced that he was hungry. The other robin said that he was hungry too, so they flew down to find some lunch. As they came down, they saw an entire field full of worms. They ate and ate until ...read more

  • Maybe If You Listened...  PRO

    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jan 4, 2011
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    "MAYBE IF YOU LISTENED..." In the middle of an argument, my Mum would say something like this - "Maybe if you LISTENED for a change, you would understand what I am trying to tell you!" So often I am not so much listening but simply waiting for the other person to finish so that I can get across my ...read more

  • Reunited

    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jan 23, 2011
     | 1,279 views

    REUNITED This week (1-11) an interesting story hit the presses: A woman who was kidnapped as a newborn 23 years ago says finding her real mother "felt like a dream." Carlina White was just 19 days old when she disappeared from Harlem Hospital in New York. She tells the New York Post that when ...read more

  • It Was There All Along  PRO

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Mar 6, 2011
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    IT WAS THERE ALL ALONG I remember a time when I had misplaced my good pen and I was looking for it everywhere. I looked in drawers. I looked under things, behind things and in things. I looked on the floor, but it was nowhere. And then I found it. I was holding it in my mouth the whole time. ...read more

  • Everything I Need To Know I Learned From Noah  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 4, 2011
    based on 3 ratings
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    EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED FROM NOAH In 1988, Robert Fulghum published his best-selling book, Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. Recently, somebody suggested another book title: Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Noah. For example... * Don't miss the boat. * Plan ...read more

  • If We'd Only Joined Hands Sooner  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 30, 2011
    based on 4 ratings
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    IF WE'D ONLY JOINED HANDS SOONER A number of years ago in Canada, a little two-year-old girl wandered away from her neighborhood. It was a cold, winter day. Her parents alerted the neighbors and they saw some tracks in the snow, but there were a lot of other tracks, so for several hours the ...read more

  • Lost And Found

    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 13, 2012
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    LOST AND FOUND In London there is an official governmental office for lost and found items. It is the London Transports “Lost Property Office.” It is located on the side of the Baker’s Street Station, just across the street from the fictitious residence of Sherlock Holmes. It has been there since ...read more

  • The Infinite Can Penetrate The Finite!!

    Contributed by Garris Hudson on Mar 1, 2016
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    Herbert Spencer, one of the popularizes of agnosticism over a century ago, observed accurately that a bird has never been known to fly out of space. Therefore, he concluded by analogy that it is impossible for the finite to penetrate the infinite. Even if God does exist, we can never know Him ...read more

  • Still Standing

    Contributed by David Dunn on Dec 16, 2025
     | 196 views

    When I was in ninth grade, I was chosen to recite the Declaration of Independence in a high school patriotic play. I had the whole thing memorized. Every word. Every pause. I had practiced it until it lived in my bones. What I didn’t know — and wouldn’t discover until later — was that my zipper ...read more